It was one of many large guarantees of the newly elected administration at Alcudia city corridor. The six bars (balnearios) on Alcudia’s seaside can be dismantled and rebuilt, all in good time for the beginning of the 2024 tourism season; from Might 1 in different phrases.
After years of ready for the bars to be renewed, they have been lastly going to be. Renewal there can be, however behind schedule.
The mayor, Fina Linares, accepts that work, which has been contracted, was imagined to have began firstly of January however has not. “Though we’re late, we expect that they (the bars) will be completed in June or mid-July.”
On the finish of final summer time, the bars have been emptied by the businesses with the concessions and deserted. The mayor’s predecessor, Domingo BonnÃn, who was additionally previously the councillor with duty for seaside administration, has expressed his concern about this: “The hazard they entail, filled with damaged glass, cables and pipes.”
In line with councillor Maria Ramos of Unidas Podemos (in opposition like BonnÃn’s El Pi social gathering), “the work hasn’t began as a result of a scarcity of price range provision”. “The mayor’s workplace and the finance division needed to submit the 2024 price range to a council session earlier than October 15. As of at the moment they haven’t carried out so. Due to this fact, there isn’t a authorised funding plan.” Ramos blames an “unprecedented scenario” on a scarcity of coordination between the finance, contracts and tourism departments.
Alcudia’s hoteliers have not as but responded to information of this delay. Again in early August, so some six weeks after the brand new city corridor administration was shaped, they put out a press launch that denounced the situation of the balnearios and demanded utmost urgency in changing them.
The mayor reacted to this with some annoyance. There had been a gathering with the hoteliers at which she had instructed them that the tender course of was beneath manner. The work would begin as quickly as potential and be accomplished in time for the 2024 season.